Natwest Tower London Photo, City skyscraper building architect, 25 Old Broad Street height, Date, EC2 location, Images
Nat West Tower Architecture
Key London Skyscraper design by Richard Seifert, England, UK
page updated 24 Jun 2014
formerly Nat West Tower
Dates built: 1971-1980
Architect: Richard Seifert – R. Seifert & Partners
New photo from 12 Nov 2012:
photograph © Adrian Welch
Tower 42
Address: 25 Old Broad Street, City of London, EC2
photos © Nick Weall
Delayed completion due to planning problems
1995 refurbished
GMW Architects
current refurbishment
Fletcher Priest Architects
183m high, 47 floors
Tallest building in London until 1 Canada Square in 1990
Damaged by IRA bomb in 1993
Currently multi-occupancy
photographs © Adrian Welch
Vertigo 42: seafood & champagne bar on Floor 42
The construction cost was £72 million (approximately £311 million today). It is 183 metres (600 ft) high, which made it the tallest building in the United Kingdom until the topping out of One Canada Square at Canary Wharf in 1990.
It was the tallest building to have been built in London in the 1980s. It held the status of tallest building in the City of London for 30 years, until it was surpassed by the Heron Tower in December 2009.
The building today is multi-tenanted and comprises Grade A office space and restaurant facilities, with restaurants on the 24th and 42nd floors. In 2011, it was bought by the South African businessman Nathan Kirsh for £282.5 million.
Tower 42 : Redevelopment proposals by Studio Egret West
image from architect
Natwest Tower architect : Richard Seifert
Location: 25 Old Broad Street, City of London, south east England, UK
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Nat West Tower refurbishment designers in 1995 : GMW Architects
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picture © Adrian Welch
Swiss Re Tower
Commissioned by Swiss Re, one of the worlds leading reinsurance companies, it rises forty-one storeys. The skyscraper provides 76,400 sqm of accommodation, including a variety of office spaces and a shopping arcade accessed from a newly created public plaza. At the top of the building London’s highest occupied floor – is a club room that offers a spectacular 360-degree panorama across the capital.
Centre Point Tower
Centre Point Tower
The Scalpel
Design: Kohn Pederson Fox – KPF
image courtesy of the architects
The Scalpel City of London Skyscraper
Lloyds Building
photo © AW
Lloyds Building
122 Leadenhall Street, City of London
Design: Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners
image : Cityscape
122 Leadenhall Street
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